FinalGear Racing 2010/24 Hours Of LeMons

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1.6 has always been there and refers to both "incidents" and the curse. Basically, the take-away from the rule is that your car can get fucked up for any of a whole shitload of reasons, and that if it does, tough shit.
 
With 2011 just around the corner, that means this thread will be coming to a close soon so a new one can replace it, and I'm going to miss it a little bit. The 2010 thread wound up growing bigger and generating more interest among the community than all the previous ones combined, and for that we only have you guys to thank. Your support and encouragement has meant a lot to us over the past year and for that we can't thank you enough. Without you, there would be no Final Gear Racing.

Now with the mushy stuff out of the way, this thread will live on for a while and won't be locked till the new 2011 one is up and running. When the 2011 thread goes up I can't really say right now, but it will probably be a few weeks into the new year when I can put together a nice big update with lots of new pictures and video covering the work being done on the GTP over the holidays. Till then, any updates or teaser shots will continue to be posted here.
 
Why not just from "2010" the title of this thread?
 
This thread isn't getting renamed because this one is already huge, and burying our resident mad scientist's labors on page 120 of a thread is just meh. Instead, the carporn belongs on page 1. Plus, 2011 is shaping up to be an... Interesting time.
 
EyeMWing said:
This thread isn't getting renamed because this one is already huge, and burying our resident mad scientist's labors on page 120 of a thread is just meh. Instead, the carporn belongs on page 1. Plus, 2011 is shaping up to be an... Interesting time.
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So true!
 
Well, frak me. I got a little busy and thought there wouldn't be much going on here so I stopped checking and now just had to go read 10 pages backwards and put them all together. That'll learn me.

Random thoughts in no order:
1. Did Quiky pick up another POS for $100?
2. I wouldn't want to drive on an oval. Ovals are ridiculously hard on the outside tires and blowouts are a very real threat. Setting a car up for a track that has both an oval and an infield is incredibly hard (and that's hard for people with fully adjustable everything on real race cars), I wouldn't even hope to get it right on our car and the speeds that would be involved would make it very dangerous.
3. 5 pts belts are indeed not made to work with airbags, I'm amazed that airbags were allowed before. I definitely wouldn't drive a race car with one. That said, it's not true that the race belts we use will keep you glued to your seat in an accident (that would do more damage than it prevents, crushing your rib cage isn't a very safe thing to do), they actually stretch quite a bit and that elasticity degrades over time (which is why they're supposed to be changed every couple of years or an incident).
4. What happened to PB's picture? Also thanks for keeping me updated through PMs, dude. I really appreciate it.

I'll try to do a better job at staying in touch here, but work on Forza 4 (yay, I can say it!) is ramping up very quickly and taking its toll on my personal time.

Happy holidays, everyone!
 
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v0od0o said:
Random thoughts in no order:
1. Did Quiky pick up another POS for $100?
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No, that 92 Regal was bought back in the summer of 2009 for $100. It turned out the 3.8 under the hood was cracked in three different places, but STILL ran like a champ, so it was sold for scrap and Quiky made a $50 profit.

4. What happened to PB's picture?
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I changed it to this https://pic.armedcats.net/p/pu/punisherbass/2010/11/28/pun_kick_your_ass.jpg a little while ago and then had it christmased up a bit.
 
They've let cars with airbags still in them run before?! To quote one of the judges' favorite words: KABOOM! Dooooo not want. I think I've really lucked out that neither of my car crashes on the road ever set off the airbags. The thought of a KABOOM! in my face kinda scares me, even if it's supposed to make things safer. :/
 
 
What you see is part of it-- the rubber surrounding it exploded quite a while back and it has been leaking&collecting random fluids. So that's where some of our oil-leak problems come from. The second mount on the driver's side under the transmission also burst-- which is probably what caused that mystery leak on saturday at the track.
 
If we do, then there is a vibrator/travel rabbit theme we need to follow through with..
 
Paint the car matte black and build a giant cardboard D-cell battery where the back seat goes?
 
Does the engine really run unbalanced enough that the vibration would be that much of an issue? The Mustang has steel engine mounts and that engine runs rough, and there's really not enough vibration from it to mention.
 
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